Can Alabama Boss tell the difference between regular beer and non-alcoholic beer? We put his taste buds, sense of smell, and beer instincts to the test and he hated every second of it.
Alabama Boss goes head-to-head with six popular beer brands, tasting the full-fat regular and non-alcoholic versions without knowing which is which. He has to use scent, flavor, color, and pure vibes to figure out which glass actually contains alcohol.
Boss takes on Michelob Ultra, Guinness, Stella Artois, Busch, Heineken, and Sapporo. With two unmarked glasses from each brand, he has to identify the alcoholic beer versus the non-alcoholic version.
Which beer would YOU be able to identify in a blind taste test?
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Alabama Boss conducts a blind taste test to see if he can distinguish between alcoholic beers and their non-alcoholic counterparts. Throughout the challenge, he struggles significantly, frequently guessing incorrectly and expressing frustration with the similarity in taste and his own inability to tell them apart.
Nah, this is fun. I don't ever want to do it again.
Hey everybody, I'm Alabama Boss and welcome to Craft Brew Review. For some reason they decided,
hey, let's see if he can tell the difference between the real beer and the non-alcoholic
beer. I don't know why they sell the damn things. I've seen them in the store and I swear,
I've looked at them and thought, why do they sell those? I think I've said it out loud like
in public. It's like, why? I get it. Maybe you don't want the alcohol part and the stuff that's
bad for you, like you're going to live forever anyway. So I'm going to try to
see if there's a difference. My confidence level is not very high, honestly, but anyway,
the first one is Michelob Ultra. I'm trying to look at them and see if you can see the difference
in them. You probably can. This one's a little paler. It could be the lights in here because
there's lights every damn where. I mean, all right. Starting here. I hear a weed eater.
It's probably there making gelato next door. There's not any grass growing. There's weeds
in Nashville. Did you say they're making gelato? Yeah, next door.
They're making gelato next door. I'm over here trying to figure out which one's got alcohol.
First one down the hatch here. Oh, that's easy. That's water. That's gotta be the alcohol.
That's gotta be it. This is like drinking tap water. Save your money, if I'm right,
and buy Dasani. No, not Dasani. I can't support that. Get the water out of the tap.
That cannot be. Yeah, I mean, this is how I'm going with this. I don't know. Anybody?
I think I've got them mixed. Are you sure this is in A? A was in A. No.
Everything I know is a lie. Ready for round two? No, I don't like this game.
I don't like this at all, really. So this is Stella. Stella Artis. I don't know how
to use this. I don't buy this. There's no way to freaking tell looking at them,
and obviously, there's no way to taste them because I just... I'm gonna try this.
I'm gonna say this one has it. For the same reason, it's a little bolder, and it has a little
bit of the skunk smell. So I'm thinking that it... I say skunk smell. It's freaking... You
It's more of a beer. This is what it doesn't have that. There's a difference in the smell,
just barely. Yeah, I'm gonna say this one right here is the alcohol. I suck. Is it really?
I would have figured it out eventually after 32. I've been like, hey,
something's up. All I'm doing is pissing, and I have not got a buzz.
S***. I don't know if I trust y'all. This has just got my brain scrambled, really. I mean,
I can kind of taste a difference there, but I got it wrong again. Oh, s***. Bush lattes.
Looking at them, I want to say that one right there is the real one, and that's the imposter.
Damn it. I can't do this. That is the non-alcohol, because based off the last ones,
the last two, whatever, it had a little more... They're gonna do something to like
make you drink it with no alcohol in it. So there's a little more flavor something in this
one. This one looks not like it's got no alcohol. It looks so watery. I'm gonna put that there,
and I'm gonna put the regular Bush latte right here.
Yep. They're overcompensating, because they're leaving the good stuff out. I don't know how,
but the color is a little more beerish. I mean, I didn't know that, because I just drank the s***
out of a can. It's really light, clear, watery looking, and that's probably why I can drink like
a dirty 30 over the weekend, but... Oh, s***. Went down my windpipe. I like the taste of beer.
I like a buzz, too. Why not get both? The only way I got this is I went against what I thought.
There's no way I can get this right. I haven't had these. I haven't had a Guinness.
It tastes like s***. That's s*** bad. Oh my gosh. That's why I need to know what I've drank on here.
I'm just on here making a s*** of myself. All right. Which one has the alcohol?
They both got a giant head.
I don't... There's no way I'm going to be able to... It smells like coffee. That's not... Oh,
that's bad. That's f***ing terrible. It's not... That's not stout. It's just... It's like...
I don't... I'm not a coffee person. I don't... I'm not a morning person. It's like nobody talked to
me for the first three hours. I'm like, please, for the love of God, don't talk to me. That's...
I don't drink coffee. I mean, my alarm clock plays Weezer hash pipe. That's my morning.
So, I don't drink coffee. Maybe I should. That tastes like old a** bland coffee from something.
A motel, not a hotel. One with the doors on the outside.
And that tastes exactly the f***ing same.
I cannot use this mouth to make the decision. I will just flip a f***ing coin here for a little
hand. It's pointing that way. That has alcohol, maybe. They both taste just, just s***y.
Good job. Good job, hand. I don't like this. I hope we never do this again.
Never. This should be, like, canceled. Nope. Don't like this show. I know right damn now
some somebody in my household is going to say, well, hell, you couldn't tell the difference.
Why don't you drink the one without alcohol? And I'm getting that alcohol because that's
where the fun's at. I mean, it's like dry humping. What's the point? We got Heineken here. Alcohol
free, premium quality. Send this s*** right here to the people that are running low on water
somewhere. I know Budweiser canned up a bunch of water one time and sent it somewhere. I remember
that. I just want to stress, I don't like this. I don't feel comfortable doing it because I know
I'm going to mess up here. That one's, man. All right. That has a lot, this has, this is stronger
smelling. So that tells me they overcompensated. It's kind of refreshing like water, more flavor.
Oh s***, I'm screwed. I'm going to really try to get this right. This has a stronger smell.
This has a stronger taste. I'm wrong. I know I'm f***ing wrong. I'm, I'm always wrong. Not really,
but yeah. Yeah, it's a, it's a different taste than those. I could just barely though. The smell
though? Nah. And the taste difference is so subtle. It's crazy. I actually had to like put some effort
into that. I still was like, I have no clue what the brand is or nothing, but that looks like a
fake and that it's like a different, a different brand. It's, it's a pearl? I don't know. Have I
had this? It's a good taste. It's sort of like a medium heavy. It's sort of, it's good. I like it.
It's a Japanese steakhouse beer. That's what it is. I can get down to that. I like it.
I mean, if I'm betting right now that by looks alone, I would think that thing, but I, but I
can't go by that. This is definitely more watery looking, but the alcohol is not going to give it
the damn color. All right. More, a lot more, it's more aroma coming off of, is that A or B? What the
hell? A. That's A? Okay. Definitely aroma. Big difference. Color? I mean, I don't know if the
camera can pick it up, but this is like so clear. This is more bold, more bold, bolder. This is
trying to get my grammar right, at least. I mean, I'm going to drop a bunch of cuss words,
but let's get that grammar right. I think they overcompensated. I'm going to go with a lighter,
less bold flavor. Wait, did you say this was Japanese? Because those is really
too good at ----. I'm still going to stick with this. God, it should be obvious.
Nah, just do it. Just do it. What sucks is that's more beer. Hang on.
I don't know. Man, look at that can. I didn't know that can was like it. Anyway, so I'm going to go
with the N.A. over here and there, there. Let me look at the upside of this, if there is any,
and I can find the upside in anything. So for those of you out there that, okay,
damn, another one coming. For those of you out there that may have alcohol,
you can't just socially drink, you're going to get a lot of flavor out of these
non-alcoholic beer. And if you like the taste of beer, I mean, I like the taste of beer. There's
like beer. I've said steak, lobster, Italian. There's a place for every beer. And I buy beer
that way. Like I've been working on a bunch of junk at my house recently, and I've just went
through a lot of cheap ass domestic beer because I sweated out so fast. And I'll throw a *******
Gatorade in there or something every once in a while. If you're an alcoholic, you can buy these
and still taste beer. I don't know if that's like smoking crack and it's really like drywall.
Everybody says, hey, hit the like and subscribe button. I don't give a **** if you do or not,
really. I want to know who buys this ----. Not that it's ----, because it's got a good taste.
I like the taste of beer, but I like a buzz. Nah, this is fun. I don't ever want to do it again.
Did I ever tell y'all about that? I got a little bit of trance. There you have it.
There you have it for, yeah, you're in a, we will never do one of these again.
I'm Alabama Boss, and I like real beer. Have a good one. If I went with my gut,
I would have got every one of them wrong. Every one. That's just damn shame.